The average container ship can spend $12 million on cylinder lubrication over its lifetime. With the right lube diagnostic tools on deck, its full ste ...

As noted in last months column, line wash is the material used to flush the lines and pipes when lubricant blenders switch production from one type of ...

TPC Groups board approved funding towards the next engineering phase of a third polyisobutylene production unit at its Houston facility. PIBs are used ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Takreers flagship 600,000 tons per year API Group II/III base oils plant at Ruwais, U.A.E., is facing further ...

Infineum unveiled a major expansion at its plant in Singapore Wednesday, and the chemical additive company said it is already planning additional capi ...

U.S. biotech company Verdezyne Inc. has reached a preliminary agreement to build a factory in Malaysia to manufacture dodeconedoic acids, at least in ...

Malaysia's Hyrax Oil will set up a lubricant blending plant in Sri Lanka with state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corp.

Evonik said last week that it has moved and expanded its lubricant additives technology center in Japan. The new facility, located in the eastern city ...

Lubricant packaging lines must satisfy a complex tangle of tasks and requirements. Getting one that operates smoothly requires careful planning, say ...

Tatnefts 190,000 ton per year API Group II/III base oil plant at its new Nizhnekamsk refinery will commission in test mode by September and could star ...

Gazprom Neft has finished the second upgrade of its lubricant blending production in Omsk, Western Siberia.

Right after finishing construction of its second rerefinery, Australias Southern Oil Refining says it may have to close its first if the country enact ...

Carl Bechem GmbH completed acquisition of its joint venture partners 50 percent interest in Etna-Bechem Lubricants LLC, resulting in the formation of ...

Fuchs Petrolub announced that its Australian subsidiary will build a lubricant blending plant in Beresfield, New South Wales, Australia, to replace an ...

Balmer Lawrie & Co., Indias grand old grease company, is trying to shake off some dust. In the midst of a multi-plant plan to expand its production ca ...

Fuchs announced plans last week to build a new manufacturing plant near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The German lubricant manufacturer expec ...

Cosmo Oil Co. said last week that it has reduced capacity of its base oil plant in Yokkaichi, Japan. The change is due to a reduction in capacity of t ...

A fire last week at Fiske Brothers Toledo, Ohio, lubricants plant resulted in no injuries but caused approximately $8,000 in damages, according to the ...

Shell opened a 1.8 billion (U.S. $290 million) lubricant technology center in Shanghai last week. The worlds largest lubricant supplier hopes the faci ...

Eastman Chemical plans to expand capacity for 2-ethylhexanol – used in lube additives – in late 2014, and Oxea started basic engineering f ...